Michael JD Sutton PhD
Associate Professor
Westminster College

Michael, an Assistant Professor at the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business at Westminster College, brings a unique view to his passion of Knowledge Mobilization (KM). His comprehensive career in senior corporate and consulting positions encompasses nearly four decades associated with Business Planning, Business Process Management, Administrative Renewal, Education, Knowledge Management, Management Consulting, Coaching, Mentoring, and Institutional Memory Management.

His academic educational passion has also been recognized with a teaching excellence award from Kent State University. He has acquired extensive experience in educating, teaching, managing, technically architecting, and leading strategic business initiatives and new business ventures. He was a Practice Director for over fifteen years, concentrating his analytical, leadership, management, systems thinking, and team building talent in the emerging field of Knowledge Management in preparation for achieving his PhD in KM late in life.

Michael is widely published, including a watermark book on institutional memory management, Document Management for the Enterprise: Principles, Techniques, and Applications, (Wiley, 1996), which has been adopted internationally by corporations and universities and was translated four years ago into Russian.

Michael has provided innovative consulting services to a range of clients: from Microsoft Corporation, UN Agencies and numerous departments of the Canadian Federal Government, to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the US Department of the Navy.